>Clean Air Act permits can take 18 months. National Environmental Policy Act reviews take an average of four and a half years. I mean, this seems like a point

>Clean Air Act permits can take 18 months. National Environmental Policy Act reviews take an average of four and a half years. I mean, this seems like a point simply made. As someone who has dealt with government bureaucracy WRT developing something, it is indeed a massive disincentive towards building. Maybe that's the whole point, but it seems like government is working against itself here by providing simultaneous incentives and disincentives.